To the History of the Formation of Public Social Policy

In economic history, it has become a common view that social reforms were undertaken against the backdrop of spontaneous, unrestricted market capitalist development in the first half of the 19th century, especially in Western Europe. In fact, in this and earlier periods in a number of these countries, one can trace a fairly rich history of ideas, as well as record various attempts to resolve social issues and strive to provide social protection, which on the one hand were not effective enough, but, on the other hand, laid the ideological and institutional foundation that contributed to the implementation of more successful subsequent attempts to develop the welfare state. This article is devoted to a review of this topic, primarily in England.